Month: August 2012

The benefits of breast milk have long been appreciated, but now scientists have described a…

Successive, vigorous bouts of leg compressions following a stroke appear to trigger natural protective mechanisms…

Oceanographers have developed a “new paradigm” for describing how the world’s oceans circulate — and…

Researchers show simpler versions of the universal genetic code can still function in protein synthesis….

Scientists have, for the first, time created a type of “cyborg” tissue by embedding a…

Scientists have discovered a gene that influences survival time in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also…

Scientists have developed a method for embedding networks of biocompatible nanoscale wires within engineered tissues….

Treatment with an agent that blocks the oxidation of an important component of the mitochondrial…